The International
Emmy Awards Gala took place in New York on 21 November 2006. Ray was unable
to attend, but he won Best
Performance by an Actor for his role in Vincent! His daughter
Jaime accepted the Emmy on his behalf, saying "I'm so proud of him ...
he's like highly inspirational, an amazing dad. I love him".The show itself
was nominated as Best Drama Series but lost out to Life on Mars.Ray said later:
Im thrilled to have won the Best Actor Award. Its a real honour
to be recognised internationally. But its the show that has won because
Stephen Butchard and the production team have created such a great role for
me.

The first series
of Vincent begins on BBC America on Monday 6 November 06. There's an
excellent and detailed preview in The
New York Sun.

A crime
drama following workaholic private detective Vincent Gallagher and his
colleagues. Vincent and the team are soon faced with a death when a man
asks them to find out if his wife is cheating on him.

Ray
Winstone must possess the most unmistakeable voice on British television;
he sounds as if he's spitting gravel into an empty biscuit tin. It's a
fine voice, though we don't hear enough of it, thanks to the numerous
pauses for dramatic effect in the first episode of this private-eye drama.
Winstone is Vincent, a maverick with a complex personal life (his wife's
left him because he's married to his job; no surprise there).

Vincent
is so relentlessly determined to be noir-ish that it feels as if
there's not much of a story. It spends most of its time with moody, lingering
shots of Vincent (roaming around like a restless Honey Monster) and his
team of gumshoes, including an attractive female sidekick (ex-Coronation
Street star Suranne Jones). Winstone is, of course, the best thing
about Vincent, a drama that burns so self-consciously slowly you
may well despair of it catching light.

(review by Alison
Graham, TV Editor, from Radio Times 'Choices' 10 October 2005)

The
new series of Vincent is equally strong. Ray Winstone, of course,
plays the eponymous private eye, drifting London like a grumbling storm
cloud. Hes backed by a dizzyingly strong team  Surrane Jones,
Ian Puleston-Davies, a deeply strange Joe Absolom. But its Winstones
show. He lends it an unreconstructed strength. Vincent taps the
stuff that made The Sweeney an institution, and has enough humour
and nous that it doesnt need to caricature it. Its superb.
I was almost punching the air by the end of the first episode; the only
drawback is there are only three more this series. Heres to another
15 years of it.

According
to ContactMusic.com,
Ray found it hard to watch his daughter Jaime's scene in Vincent
where she has her throat cut.

Manchester
Evening News has an interview with Ray about why Vincent is
shot in Manchester and how Jaime got her role in the drama.

Nice
review of Vincentby Carol Midgley in The Times
17 October 2006: Vincent (ITV1) stars Ray Winstone
and as the dogs b******s of British acting he is always worth a
look given that he can lift even the dodgiest script to semi-Bafta level.
In fact a TV critic could almost get away with not watching anything he
is in, merely writing Ray Winstone was brilliant in . . . (fill
in title of programme) and going back to sleep.

Nice
review of the second episode of the second series of Vincent in
The
Scotsman here.